With Joffre at Verdun: A Story of the Western Front
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You'd have said, if you had glanced casually at Henri de Farquissaire, that he was British—British from the well-trimmed head of hair beneath his light-grey Homberg hat to the most elegant socks and tan shoes which adorned his feet. His walk was British, his stride the active, elastic, athletic stride of one of our young fellows; and the poise of his head, the erectness of his lithe figure, a symbol of what one is accustomed to in Britons wherever they are met. That one gathered from a mere casual glance; though a second glance—a more penetrating one, we will say, one with a trifle more curiosity thrown into it—would have discovered other points still bearing out the same assumption as to Henri's nationality, and leaving hardly a suspicion that in point of fact he was French—as French as they make them.
F. S. Brereton
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With Joffre at Verdun
A Story of the Western Front
LT.-COL. F. S. BRERETON
Contents
Illustrations
WITH JOFFRE AT VERDUN
CHAPTER I
The Camp at Ruhleben
Henri and Jules and Stuart
The Road to Freedom
The Heart of Germany
Eluding the Pursuers
Changing their Direction
A Friend in Need
The Verdun Salient
A Terrific Bombardment
The Thin Line of Heroes
Falling Back
A Reconnoitring-party
Douaumont Fortress
Frenchmen and Brandenburgers
Rats in a Trap
A Fight to a Finish
Charge of the Gallant Bretons
A Sinister German
Heroic "Poilus"